Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-24
A MATTER OF FAIRNESS.

The Los Angeles Herald of the 10th,
after asserting that the RECoRD-UNIoN
misrepresents the Haald in charging it
with misstatements concerning Northern
and Central California, adds: We have
never printed an untrue statement about
any section of the State Which bit of
GOODNESS fairly takes the breath away. But
our contemporary says:
The tact is some time ago the up-country
| press set out on a most malignant mission of
| writing down this end of the State. The
| Head at once Joined issue and spiked their
| guns. The RECoRD-USIOS was one of the lead
| ers i'll that unjust attack.
Among those familiar with the course
of the REcoRp-UNIoN, this fatty false
statement will provoke only smiles.
"The fact is" this journal has insisted
steadily that there is and cannot in reason
| be any conhit between the sections, and
that Misrepresentation of any region in
the State should be frowned down and
stamped out The RECoRD-UNIoN has
uniformly expressed its contempt for the
| back-alley journalism that seeks to kindle
feelings of luminosity and antagonism be-
tween the northern and southern sections.
The whole State is ours; the north
takes pride in the splendid achievements
of the south, and emulates her progressive
example by presenting her claims, eli
| matte and productive. This is neither I'M
fair nor jealous conduct, nor in the nature
of enmity or malignancy." Familiarity
with the expression of the press of the
north and central sections has not re-
vealed to us a malignant or other
effort TO write down" the southern end
of the State 1t is a myth, and born of
the fevered Imagination, not to say jealous
fears Of the Herald. That paper, we
regret to say, has for year or more lost
no opportunity to misrepresent the north,
and by adroitly devised statements, Ringing
upon a thread of fact, sought to mis-
| lead its readers and impress the stran-
gers with erroneous ideas co. cerning this
part of the State. Instances Of this fact
might be cited in great number. In this
connection the expression of Governor
Waterman, himself Southern Califor-
Man, in his address at the Oroville Citrus
Fair, is apropos: "When you hear Of
| anybody in the southern part of the State
| talking against this part of the State you
! may know they are either weak-minded or
real estate agents, for most of the people
| there are above such dishonorable con-
| duct" As a fair example of the question
| able method of the Herald and its DISPOSE
| ton to underestimatc-to use no stronger
misrepresentation under the guise of
they say" ait is said" and other con-
venient cloaks to falsity, we quote from its
| issue of the same date its notice of the
| Placer county exhibition Of citrus fruits,
| now being held in Los Angeles, the fol-
| lowing ." fair" and "honest expressions
Arranged in the present form the display is
attracting some attention, but nearly all of the
visitors were aware that citrus fruits could be
grown to some extent in northern counties.
Those who are familiar with the subject say
that there are to be found in Placer county
few pockets or sheltered spots, where the sun
strikes just right, in which oranges, etc, Will
| grow quite well These pockets, however, cover
| a very small area, and to state that the whole
| county can be adapted to this branch of fruit
| culture is considered misleading. The exhibit
| is quite extensive and it is alleged that the
| whole orange crop of the county is now in Los
| Angeles.
Comment upon such outrageously vicious
statements. and the spirit in which they
| are made Is unnecessary